PITTSBURGH (AP) — The Justice Department has been scrutinizing a controversial ... issues surrounding the increasing use of ...

The AP has learned the Justice Department is investigating one Pennsylvania county’s child welfare system to determine whether its use of an algorithm discriminates against people with ...

The U.S. Justice Department is asking the same question. The agency is investigating the county’s child welfare system to determine whether its use of the influential algorithm discriminates ...

Child welfare algorithms plug vast amounts of public data about local families into complex statistical models to calculate ...

PITTSBURGH (AP) — For the two weeks that the Hackneys’ baby girl lay in a Pittsburgh hospital bed weak from dehydration, her parents rarely left her side, sometimes sleeping on the fold-out ...